K-type star · orange

Alpha Ant

Alpha Ant is an orange in the constellation Antlia 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,904 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 213× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

366 lybrightness mag 4.28K4III

Also catalogued as HR 4104 · HD 90610 · HIP 51172

3,904 K
temperature
4.28
apparent magnitude
213× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
213×
the Sun's light output
-0.97
absolute magnitude
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Alpha AntK-type
Sky regionAntliathis direction
StarHR 411712 ly
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Bright stars in Antlia
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Antlia

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.